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Laughter, of course, is one of the best known and most treasured ways that human beings express happiness. In addition to laughing when they find something funny, people laugh when they find something joyous, or heartwarming, or even stimulating. In general, a person enjoys hearing another person laugh. Unless, of course, that other person has a laugh that, rather than sounding joyous, sounds painful or cringe-inducingly awful.

The Annoying Laugh usually comes in several specific flavors (the Asthma Attack bellow, the high Hyena-like cackle, the Snort-Snort-Snort, the Machine Gun Chuckle, and the Donkey-like Bray being the most common). In some cases, the Annoying Laugh is used in place of actually fleshing out a character, since the type of annoying laugh can lead the audience to assuming the character basically is just as annoying as his or her laugh happens to be. In some cases, a character will have an Annoying Laugh because the script calls for it, but sometimes its because the actor playing the role laughs like that for real.

The Italian dub of One Piece is basically one big Lampshade Hanging of how the unusual different kinds of laughter (case in point: Hogback), while somewhat acceptable in a manga, actually end up working awfully when animated. On the other hand, there are exceptions such as Brook's Italian VA, who did a perfect job at that.

Actually, the laughs are played quite good (just listen to Perona) but they did, however, simply ignored the 90% of the remaining laughs.

4Kids manages to do it to 2 antagonists: Meowth from the Pokémon anime and Marik from Yu-Gi-Oh!.

Naga the Serpent from Slayers, whose epic Noblewoman's Laugh can be classified as a deadly weapon in 37 states. It also sends old women scrambling to the nearest shrine, begging whichever deity that happens to be nearby to "please make it stop".

Madagascar: Escape from Africa has Melman saying that one of the things he loves about Gloria is that she has a beautiful laugh. When she does laugh later on... it's mainly high giggling and snorting, but Melman still loves the laugh. Alex and Marty don't comment on it much other than Marty declaring "Love has no boundaries!"

Princess Ting-Ting in Mulan II has a snorting laugh which she hates, so she does her level best to avoid laughing for most of the film. However when she finally does crack up and laugh, Ling (her love interest) finds it cute.

According to the writings of some of Mozart's friends, the man really did laugh like that, making this entry Truth in Television.

Scutt Farkus in A Christmas Story. Needless to say, when Ralphie snapped and beat the snot out of him, it was very satisfying to watch.

88 Keys from Dick Tracy, which sounds like a braying donkey. This was added to the film version, the comic strip character didn't have this trait, and wasn't much of the laughing type in the first place.

Star Wars: Salacious B. Crumb, the Kowakian monkey-lizard from Return of the Jedi, has one of the most obnoxious laughs of all time. Nobody complained about him dying in the explosion of the sail barge.

Mrs. Davis' sister Angela has a high pitched laugh, like a schoolgirl. The annoyance comes from the fact that she's a short, middle-aged woman. It's especially notable in the episode "Angela's Wedding".

Walter Denton has a high, discordant laugh to go along with his squeaky teenage voice. In "Mr. Leblanc Needs $50" his girlfriend Harriet Conklin walks up to him while he's laughing:

Harriet: How long have you been standing there, cackling to yourself?

ALF. Alf is Playing Cyrano, but finds the boy isn't interested in the girl after finding she has an annoying laugh.

Alf: So you're not going to take her out to the movies any more? Boy: I will... just not to anything funny.

"Aliens of London": In the last scene, when the Slitheen reveal themselves, Jacrassa Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen, their leader, posing as acting Prime Minister Joseph Green, starts laughing as his comrade removes his human disguise. The laughter continues all through the scene, and is decidedly not evil-sounding, merely irritating.

Robin Hood: Robin Hood laughs in the face of all! Ha-ha-ha! The Doctor: And do people ever punch you in the face when you do that? Robin Hood: Not as yet, no. The Doctor: Lucky I'm here, then, isn't it?

One of the guests on Malcolm McDowell's Fantasy Island had a fantasy about hooking up with his childhood crush, who he remembers as having a wonderful laugh. Maybe it was selective memory, but when his fantasy comes true it turns out she has a kind of glass-breaking rattle.

Chandler's work laugh is very annoying and he explains it was invented for survival reasons. He warns Monica she will need to invent one as well to survive his work colleagues. She does.

In Full House episode "The Producer", Danny quits Wake Up San Francisco out of jealousy towards Becky's promotion to Producer, and the replacement she hires, Phil Blankman, has an extremely irritating laugh, for which the entire family agrees, even Becky herself.

Jerry Ledbetter (Paul Eddington) on The Good Life usually deployed a rather grating snicker.

The Good Place: All of the demons have annoying laughs. They also find annoying things funny, find the act of annoying people funny, and of course will brutally torture anyone they get their hands on. They combine Evil Is Petty with dead-serious eternal damnation.

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys has the character Strife and, later, his twin brother Deimos, who are both infamous among the other characters for their hyena-like laugh:

Hercules: Deimos... I'd know that laugh anywhere! Deimos: Ah-hahahaha! Hercules: That was not a compliment!

On an episode of House when Cuddy is trying to get pregnant, House brings one of the sperm donors she's considering in for an interview. The man had a very annoying laugh which came out when he was nervous. This was one of House's arguments for why he shouldn't be considered as the father.

Desi Arnaz as Ricky Ricardo in I Love Lucy. His laugh sounded phoney, and kind of forced, but it wasn't. That was Arnaz's real laugh.

Now disgraced TV personality Stuart Hall was famous for his laugh on The '70s crazy game show It's A Knockout. A sort of choked braying hysteria that was unmistakeable. When the pan-European contest was hosted in Britain, other European commentators doing voice-overs for their own domestic audiences would stop and allow a whole continent to experience the Hall laugh.

Mystery Science Theater 3000: Phantom of Krankor from the experiment Prince of Space. While his drawn-out "Heeeeeeeh heeeeeeeeeh heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh" never draws any comment from characters in the original movie, it earns him much derision from the SOL crew.

Fran Fine from The Nanny. Her laugh is practically the tagline for the show.

Melanie Pearson from Neighbours, not helped by her overreacting to Henry's jokes.

Kitty from That '70s Show. Unlike a lot of television characters who have annoying laughs, who basically have annoying laughs because the actor involved does, Kitty's laugh is not the actual laugh of actress Debra Jo Rupp.

A Wings episode has Helen dating a man with a laugh like a braying hyena. It becomes so annoying that Helen eventually decides to break up with him because of it, but before she can do so, he dumps her because he cannot stand her Southern accent.

Frank Burns from M*A*S*H has an annoying little giggle that he likes to use whenever he thinks he's gotten the one-up on somebody or when he's feeling smug. It does little to help with his alreadyabrasive personality.

Tony Atlas on WWECW while working on the Abraham Washington Show. John Morrison apparently liked it though.

Mr. E of Los Mamitos, especially during his World Wrestling League promos.

Puppet Shows

Les Guignols de l'info: The puppet for Dominique Farrugia, humorist and former president of Canal+. His laugh sounds like a sea lion barking (and once attracted said animals).

Radio

Disk jockey Elliot Segal, of Elliot In The Morning in the Baltimore/Washington DC area, has a very annoying laugh.

Australian cricket commentator Kerry O'Keefe.

Dawn from the Rob, Arnie and Dawn Show has a very cackly and annoying laugh.

During his tenure on The Howard Stern Show, the various laughs of Jackie "The Joke Man" Martling, were a fairly big part of the show — ranging from a low dirty giggle to a big expressive "Whoop!"

Sherlock Holmes, in the BBC Radio adaptations starring Clive Merrison. Watson complains about it a few times.

Musical theatre singer Elaine Paige, who presents a BBC show on Radio Two on Sunday afternoons, possesses quite possibly the most uniquely memorable laugh on British radio. It sounds like a cross between a braying donkey and a Loony Tunes character.

Roleplay

During the wake held for their deceased comrade Jetstream, Achilles of the Global Guardians PBEM Universe turned to his teammate, Ultra-Man, and drunkenly asked, "Could you explain how a huge guy like you laughs like a six year old girl?"

Theater

In Oklahoma!, the protagonist Curly dates a girl named Gertie to make heroine Laurey jealous. Gertie must be played by an actress who can affect an obnoxious laugh. An example of a particularly ear-splitting performance can be seen here. That's Gertie cuddling Curly and laughing uproariously at the beginning of the video, while Laurey looks on from the porch in disgust and irritation.

A Very Potter Musical: This page needs to start doing things... THE UMBRIDGE WAY! A DERDERDERDERDERDER. The extended version when s/he tries to keep Harry from going to Hogsmeade is even more annoying.

Video Games

From Kingdom Hearts: Vexen and Larxene in the Japanese versions of Re: Chain of Memories. People on YouTube loop their laughs and dare people to see how long they can listen to them without clawing their ears forcibly off their heads. Have a listen.Or two. Make it stop indeed.

Heidegger from Final Fantasy VII has a "gya-ha-ha" laugh that irritates the other heads of Shinra to no end. There's also Scarlet's "kya-ha-ha," Bugenhagen's "Ho ho ho" Santa Claus laugh and... well, let's just say this game is loaded with characters that have annoying laughs and leave it at that.

In Katawa Shoujo, Misha's trademark "Wa ha ha~!" laugh seems to be this; it certainly seems to grate on Hisao's nerves after a while. Probably a good thing the developers decided not to go with full voice-acting...

Soda Popinski of Punch-Out!! lets out a truly aggravating laugh when he knocks you down. It's bad enough in the Wii version, where it's a real person; in the NES version, it's an eight-bit digitized laugh, similar to the one used by Ganon in Zelda II: The Adventure of Link.

Of course, there's the legendary Duck Hunt dog, whose laugh has earned him the hatred of an entire generation of gamers.

So naturally, when he was included as a fighter in the Wii U and 3DS iteration of Super Smash Bros., that laugh is used in several animations, including his taunt.

In killer7, your enemies are the dreaded Heaven Smiles who blow up on contact and laugh constantly. Each different Smile has a different laugh, a good number of which are extremely annoying. (Especially the Bombhead Smiles)

If you don't defeat all of the pigs in Angry Birds, they will do a really annoying laugh. Thankfully you can skip it by pressing the "Restart Level" button.

A number of characters in League of Legends have rather annoying laughs, most infamously Lulu and especiallyLux who both have incredibly high-pitched and hysterical giggles. Extremely aggravating when spammed non-stop at your opponents, although you may find your teammates leaving you to fight alone just to get away from the sound. Picking Lux and spamming her laugh emotion is considered a free win in One for All games.

Notably, Lux retains her laugh in her 2017 voiceover (done by the same voice actoryears later), but her Elementalist Lux skin, which has its own unique VO reflecting a generally more mature, grown-up Lux (also done by the same VO) have more subdued laughs.

A knight's laugh in The Last Story is used to show how pompous and corrupt he is, especially during the attack on Gurak civilians.

In Jojos Bizarre Adventure All Star Battle, Ultimate-Life-Form Kars has an unbelievably irritating cackle (Ha~Ha~Ha Ha Ha~!) whenever he uses his long-ranged, obscenely powerful and unblockable tentacle attack that counters any and all attempts to jump close to him.

Gannondorf and (as mentioned above) the dog half of the Duck Hunt duo in Super Smash Bros. 4. But somehow inverted w/ Palutena (who lets out a fetisy one during her pole-dancing taunt).

Hentai Woody of Slender Fortress is a prime example of this trope. When he kills someone, he lets out an extremely loud cackle that the entire server hears. It's fairly funny at first, but remember there's FOUR other clones of him. Say they all kill dozens of mercenaries at once. You've got yourself some class-A Ear Rape right there.

Dota 2: Every single one of Sniper's laughs, usually from either using his abilities or killing you. "HO HO! HA HA!"

Benedict the rocket wielding hawk man from Battleborn has a really annoying laugh. When laughing too hard, it'll sometimes go over into clucking. Amusingly enough, it seems to annoy him the most.

Nahman of the GI Proz has a "Monkey Laugh," which can be heard on Kieza's channel.

"DarkSydePhil": One of the things Phil's detractors have problems with is his noticeably sarcastic laugh (common comparisons include circus seals, complete with clapping), though his normal laughing isn't much better.

It would later be revealed that the vague rhythm of his laugh applies to everything he does. "Brush! Brush brush! Brush brush brush buh brush!"

The Kanker Sisters of Ed Eddn Eddy. Lee's sounds masculine, Marie has a high-pitched cackle, and May snorts. A lot of times, they sound like a bunch of hyenas. Kevin's laughter is really annoying as well.

This is a plot point in the Sanjay and Craig episode "Laugh Quake". Each of the title characters thinks the other has an annoying laugh, so they try to remedy it by going to a comedy club, where they are eventually kicked out. Later, both get crapped on by a bird, trying (and ultimately failing) to hold in their laughter, which eventually starts a chain reaction.

Jerry from the Gene Deitch Tom and Jerry cartoons had a particularly obnoxious laugh.

Mandy from Totally Spies!. Mandy has a really annoying laugh. It sounds like a goat's bleating. In the episode "Futureshock", where she's becoming the world's number one celebrity twenty years in the future, all of her admirers adopt the same laugh.

Conan O'Brien is known for his high-pitched, nasally and cartoonish laugh.

At the final screening of Clerks at Sundance, where Kevin Smith was hoping to find a distributor, after about 20 minutes or so, Kevin noticed someone with a loud, incredibly obnoxious laugh drowning out the laughter of the rest of the audience. "Turns out it's Harvey Weinstein."

According to her husband (Freddy Prinze Jr.), Sarah Michelle Gellar laughs "like a hyena suffering through an epileptic fit." According to him, he finds it endearing that she has the one "unforgiveable flaw".

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